About

Dear Plone Enthusiasts,

We are pleased to present you the 16th Plone Conference in Tokyo. Tokyo is a unique, exciting city of modern and traditional charms. It is an honor for us to host this global event as first one in Asia as well. Whole training, talks, sprint will be held in English language.

HOW DIFFERENT THIS YEARPlone software and community has been evolved actively nearly 20 years since Plone debut on the Internet. Plone Conference supporte this miracle long life in the fast-changing industry. Plone software is about to leap into a next generation, Python 3 and Zope 4. Also, Plone community has gradually expanded to Asian countries. We organize this event for Plone people to experience the *DIFFERENT* world by characterizing with three keywords.

Tokyo

New attendees from Japan and Asia

Networking with Python and Other Open Source Communities

Tokyo is very different among other megacities. Exotic experiences inspire new ideas and discussion. You can see some differences by Youtube and readings, but direct interaction with people at that place gives you far more impact. In the Conference event, we provides special attraction of Shodo and Kagamibiraki. What are they? Join us!

New attendees from Japan and Asia is out intention. We would like people in the software industry to have networking among people with an interest in Plone.

Networking with Python and Other Open Source Communities expands your interest and opportunity. Hoping everyone could get something new.

Organizer

The organizer “PloneConference2018 Steering Committee” was established in 2017 by six Plone freaks of Manabu Terada, Takeshi Yamamoto, Zenichiro Yasuda, Tadaomi Sakai, Takashi Nagai and Takanori Suzuki. They advocate Plone since 2003 impressed by legendary Padova Sprint and Plone Conference #1 in New Orleans. Monthly Plone meet-up were held more than 15 years without interruption in Tokyo. Since 2004, they promoted Plone by putting up community booth and presentation talk at Open Source Conference, the largest open source community event in Japan every year. They are also freak of Zope/Python and willing to contribute future of open source community.